SunOS 4.1.3 /usr/ucb/Mail warning ..

2007-12-25 9:01:00

Hello all -

Last week I wrote:

> On one of our SunOS 4.1.3 systems, running the /usr/ucb/Mail program

> (and other mail programs, as well) gives the message:

> May not execute "mail" while sourcing

> but things seem to work OK.

> Has anyone else seen this? Is this a "feature", bug or just confusing?

> Doesn't seem like it's bitten us so far, but I don't want it to bite us

> in the future.

> Here's an example session ....

> |> [sccsadm@shiner]:/usr/openwin/bin/xview

> |> [57]> /usr/ucb/Mail

> |> May not execute "mail" while sourcing

> |> Mail version SMI 4.0 Thu Jul 23 13:52:20 PDT 1992 Type ? for help.

> |> "/usr/spool/mail/sccsadm": 2 messages 1 new 2 unread

> |> U 1 debbiek@mamba Thu May 4 10:34 23/882 test

> |> >N 2 debbiek@mamba Thu May 4 11:10 22/872 test

> |> & x

> Thanks for any help,

Thanks to all who responded ..

and

Casper Dik (casper@Holland.Sun.COM) who hit the nail on the head with:

| Check the user's .mailrc and the system wide /usr/lib/Mail*rc files.

| The contain commands to print or save mail which isn't allowed.

| (E.g., start your .mailrc with "m" on a single line and you get the

| same on all machines)

The user who told me about it, had the "m" on a single line embedded

in his .mailrc file.

I hadn't used /usr/ucb/Mail in so long that I clearly missed this in

reviewing his .mailrc file.

Thanks for the help,

Debbie

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